PETA Wins International Award for Exposing Gruesome Tests on Animals

PETA was honored with the prestigious 2013 LUSH Prize Public Awareness Award in a ceremony in London yesterday. The $40,000 award recognizes PETA’s effective use of undercover investigations, whistleblower exposés, colorful campaigns, corporate negotiations, and thought-provoking advertisements to bring about massive lifesaving changes for animals in laboratories.

Since our landmark Silver Spring monkeys case in 1981, PETA has been dedicated to exposing the abuse of animals in laboratories and mobilizing supporters to help end it.

Now more than ever, the public is aware that experimentation on animals is cruel and that superior, non-animal methods exist. The LUSH Prize acknowledges PETA’s analysis of public opinion polls, which have shown large increases in public opposition to animal experimentation over the last decade, with more than 40 percent of people now against animal experiments and more than half of women and young adults against them.

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I am so glad for PETA to have earned this prize – Congratulations! Not only is it well earned, but for that part of the public that still doubts, we can now point to this prize and say the LUSH Prize Public Awareness Award group recognizes the validity of PETA’s undercover work and the shocking information in their campaigns and so should YOU. I have found PETA’s information at times so ghastly that friends and family don’t believe it, and consider PETA a group of extremists instead of a group of citizens desiring to stop inhumane treatment of animals. This award provides public recognition for PETA’s good work, and tells the World that YES!, with effort and money, there can be progress.

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